The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

I’ve spent the past week digging into this world — the players, the jargon, the university’s turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. Lu’s research, per his website , concerns “the intersection of security, operating systems, program analysis, and compilers.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the 2021 groundbreaking for the Intuit Dome, the new home of the L.A. The closest comparison, Ballmer said, was the companys alliance with IBM, developing operating systems for early personal computers. Clippers, the NBA franchise he acquired in 2014.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The next version of Google’s mobile operating system features the new Material You visual design and has been in public beta since May. October 4th is the date Google lists as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) release of Android 12 in the document. This tentative release date was also mentioned by a 3PL.

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Vox

APRIL 12, 2024

One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a small, one-person open source project. Linux is an open source operating system — as opposed to closed systems from companies like Apple — that runs on tens of millions of devices.)

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Michael Gasch pontificates on Knative’s missteps in this post from June 2021.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Operating Systems/Applications.

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Kitaboo

JUNE 23, 2021

Most open-source projects are developed under a Public Domain license to allow independent developers to contribute to the project. . It helps you design and deliver digital content compatible on multiple devices such as smartphones, tablets or PCs and all major operating systems. . Digital Publishing / April 19, 2021.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The Critical Start Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team analyzed a range of intelligence sources, such as customer data, open-source intelligence, vulnerability research, social media monitoring, and Dark Web monitoring to identify the most pressing cybersecurity threats of the first half of 2023.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It integrates with multiple devices (smartphone, tablet, or PC) and operating systems (iOS, Android, and Windows). . Sigil is an open-source software for creating EPUBs. Digital Publishing / August 17, 2021. Digital Publishing / February 8, 2021. Best EPUB Makers to Create Interactive eBooks.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

There are some unique complicating factors this year, but it’s the same old Android — the good and the bad Android 12 is one of the platform’s most ambitious updates in recent history, bringing a major design overhaul to every corner of the operating system. A full stable release came a month later than usual, on October 4th, 2021.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. Fortunately, it looks like these vulnerabilities have been patched, so be sure to update your Zoom client. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.24

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older post (dates from 2021), but still useful, I think. And, while we are talking about “another take,” here’s another take on OpenTF (the proposed “truly open source” Terraform fork). In it, Christopher Lenard discusses the benefits of moving from Terraform to Pulumi.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Cisco also found itself in the spotlight, occupying the third and fourth positions on the list with vulnerabilities in its IOS XE operating system. Despite being discovered in 2021, many organizations have yet to resolve this flaw, showcasing a troubling trend of inadequate patching practices.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

43% of sec team members admitted to full ownership of security (a 12% jump from 2021), but a resounding majority (53%) said everyone was responsible, a 25% increase from 2021. For example, let's say a team is using a popular open-source library in their application.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. And the hope is that in 2021, we'll get more expansive exemptions that apply to more types of devices, and that reduce the potential chilling effect that would stop researchers working on security research in the US because of fears of DMCA violations.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. And the hope is that in 2021, we'll get more expansive exemptions that apply to more types of devices, and that reduce the potential chilling effect that would stop researchers working on security research in the US because of fears of DMCA violations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. It’s an interesting story, one they presented at Black Hat Europe in 2021, so I hope you’ll stick around. Their Operating System type was set to windows.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

In some cases they’re taking open source, community-based tools and leveraging them in creative new ways against common threats. In May 2021, for Episode 20 of The Hacker Mind , I interviewed Frank Duff was then the Director of ATT&CK Evaluations for MITRE Engenuity. There are the vendors, right?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. It's the software that emulates a physical computer virtually to run programs operating systems stored data connected networks and do other typical computing functions.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Paula Januszkiewicz, from Cqure , joins The Hacker Mind to discuss her two presentations at SecTor 2021 on digital forensics. You’ll want someone with years of pen testing experience, some one who knows the operating system like no other. Who are you going to call for help?

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Network World

APRIL 11, 2025

When Groundcover entered the observability market in 2021, it was already a mature market with established vendors. Open-source technology at the core: How eBPF changes observability At the core of Groundcovers platform is eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology.

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Network World

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Flaws in the widely used open-source Java-logging Apache Log4j software were originally disclosed in 2021. As a three-year-old vulnerability, it may be assumed that organizations have had ample time to patch their systems, Belson said.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

The company went public in 2015, and as online commerce has exploded during the pandemic, it’s been on a tear ever since — it just posted $988 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, a 110 percent increase from last year. Shopify creates a centralized retail operating system. But basically, it’s always the same.

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